Coai Hosting Live In 5 Minutes

Run a self-hosted AI chat and OpenAI-compatible API gateway on your own domain. xCloud sets up Coai v4.0.0 with HTTPS, a generated administrator login and private MySQL and Redis storage, so you can add your own provider keys and start sharing access with your team.

Deploy your Coai

No terminal
No technical skills needed
No lock-in, cancel anytime

From Sign-Up to a Live Coai Gateway In 3 Steps

A multi-user AI chat and API service normally means a backend, a database, a cache and a certificate before the first login. This is the same result without assembling the stack yourself.

Step 01
Sign Up
Create your xCloud account and pick Coai from the OneClick catalog. Choose a domain — there are no other fields to fill in.
Step 02
We Deploy It For You
One click. We bring up Coai v4.0.0 from its official image, pinned by digest, alongside MySQL 8.4 and Redis 7.4, generate the JWT secret, database and Redis passwords and administrator password, and publish the app over HTTPS on your domain.
Step 03
Sign In And Add A Provider
Save the generated root password from your installation credentials, then sign in at your HTTPS URL. Set Backend Domain in Admin > General Settings and add your first provider channel and API key under Admin > Channels.

Everything Coai Gives Your Team, In One Place

One chat front end, one API endpoint and one admin console, all running on the server you control.

Many Providers, One Front Door
Add OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, DeepSeek, OpenRouter, a local Ollama endpoint and more behind one chat UI and one API.
OpenAI-Compatible API
Point existing SDKs and tools at your Coai domain through its chat, image, model and billing endpoints.
Channel Routing
Set channel priority, weighted load balancing, user groups and automatic retry across the providers you connect.
Admin Console
Manage users, subscriptions, per-request or per-token billing, redemption codes and announcements from one place.
Chat For Your Users
Give users conversation sync across devices, sharing, Markdown with LaTeX and Mermaid, and light and dark themes.
Private Storage
Accounts, channels, conversations, uploads and cache persist on named volumes, with MySQL and Redis kept off the public network.

Everything You Need To Run Your Your AI Gateway 24/7

Coai on xCloud, set up for you, with the parts that keep it running kept out of your way.

Coai v4.0.0 deployed for you
Official image pinned by digest
Private MySQL 8.4 and Redis 7.4
Generated administrator password
Free SSL certificate
30+ server locations
Unused balance refunded

Simple Pricing. Everything Included.

Dedicated Cloud VPS sizes, pre-configured for Coai. Pick the one that fits, and resize any time.

Cloud VPS 6 GB

Cloud VPS 16 GB

More users, more channels and heavier API traffic.

$59.99per month

16 GB RAM
6 vCPU cores
200 GB NVMe SSD
30 TB
Unlimited

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Cloud VPS 24 GB

Coai alongside other self-hosted apps on the same box.

$84.99per month

24 GB RAM
8 vCPU cores
300 GB NVMe SSD
30 TB
Unlimited

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Every size is a dedicated Cloud VPS. Billed monthly with no lock-in. Coai itself is free under the Apache License 2.0; you pay your own model providers for inference.

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Already Have a Server? Bring Your Own

Connect any VPS and deploy Coai on it through the same panel, for a per-server management fee instead of a Cloud VPS rental.

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The same platform, discounted at 6–10 servers.

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The same platform, discounted at 11+ servers.

$3per server / month

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Priced per connected server. You pay your own provider for the server itself.

Self-managed hosting

Ready To Run Your Own AI Gateway?

Coai on xCloud runs on a dedicated Cloud VPS. We provision the server and set up the stack. You keep your provider keys, users and data.

Fast Provisioning
Deploy faster using an xCloud Managed Server built with optimized stacks and high-speed SSDs.
Enterprise-grade security
Protect your infrastructure with a free SSL certificate and more advanced security features at no additional cost.
Intuitive Control Panel
From Server creation to application deployment, everything can be managed from our intuitive control panel.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Feel free to contact us with any questions or concerns you may have.

What is Coai?

Coai is an open-source, self-hosted AI chat gateway. It combines an end-user chat interface, an OpenAI-compatible API relay and an admin console in front of the model providers you choose. This template deploys version 4.0.0.

Is Coai the same as Chat Nio?

Yes. The project also publishes under the name Chat Nio, and some sources write it as CoAI. This page deploys Coai v4.0.0 from the official image.

Is Coai free?

Yes. Coai is free under the Apache License 2.0. You pay xCloud for the server and the setup, and you pay your model providers for the inference you use.

Does Coai run the AI models itself?

No. Coai routes requests to the provider channels you add, and you bring your own API keys. Model inference runs at those providers, not on your server, so which models work depends on the providers you connect.

Can I use Coai as an OpenAI-compatible API gateway?

Yes. Coai exposes OpenAI-compatible endpoints such as /v1/chat/completions, /v1/images, /v1/models and /v1/billing, so existing SDKs and tools can point at your Coai domain. Test your own client against it before you rely on it.

How do I sign in the first time?

Open your HTTPS domain and sign in as root with the administrator password from your installation credentials. The public default password from upstream is replaced during installation and will not work.

What should I set up after installing?

In Admin > General Settings, set Backend Domain to https://your-domain/api, because stored image links and provider callbacks use it. Then add a channel and API key under Admin > Channels.

Is public registration open by default?

Yes. Anyone who finds the URL can create an account, but new users start with zero quota and no channels are enabled until you add one, so no provider spend is possible. Close registration in Admin > General Settings if you do not want self-service sign-ups.

How are uploaded files handled?

Uploads that are not images or plain text go to the upstream-hosted parse service at blob.coai.dev, unless you set a File Parsing Service URL in the admin console. The template does not run a local parser.

What should I back up?

All five named volumes together, plus the generated SECRET and database and Redis passwords. The database holds users, channels and conversations, the config volume holds admin settings, and the storage volume holds uploads. Restoring the database without the SECRET invalidates logins.

Backups in xCloud

How do I upgrade Coai?

Existing installs stay on the image digest they were created with. To upgrade, back up every volume, read the upstream release notes, then update the tag and digest together and confirm sign-in and a test chat afterwards.

What server size do I need?

The template manifest asks for 1024 MB of RAM, 1 CPU core and 10 GB of disk as a floor. This page sells the 6 GB tier for headroom, since idle use across the three containers measured about 453 MiB in QA and the database accounts for most of it.

Is xCloud officially partnered with Coai?

No. No official partnership or endorsement between xCloud and the Coai project has been verified. This is a deployment and server-management option for the open-source project.

Can I cancel anytime?

Yes. There is no lock-in — cancel any time. Hosting is billed monthly and charged for what you actually use, so when you delete the server the unused balance is refunded to your account, less up to 10% in payment-processing fees.